To be accurate to what the pickups around here that look like that, you need a used water heater, some broken bikes, and some matress springs in the back .
Gnarley dude, to be prototypical here you’d need to grind the bottom off the cab up to the door line, eliminate the bottom third of the back section of the rear fenders, and pu***he thing down until the top of the bed front hits the back of the cab. Does anyone make a rifle rack and fishing pole for the back winder ? Nice job! J.R.
Kinda looks like Mary Ann’s 84 diesel F250. It needs a roll or two of bob wire and a few fence posts. Maybe a couple of 5 gal buckets and a sack or two of range cubes. O yea, her’s is tan.
Had one that was pretty similar. Only I rusted it up a bunch. There was this guy at the club that like scenery more than running. He built up a picture perfect farm and a couple of us figured it wasn’t authentic without a rusted out pick-up on blocks, so built that one and slipped it in under a tree. It lasted about an hour and disappeared. I sure would have liked to get it back.
Sweet job, Coyote! [bow] That’s one decrepit lookin’ p/u!
Just a suggestion if you do any more: Consider adding a few well-placed dents & dings. I think careful use of a soldering iron or heat gun might help do the trick. Also, perhaps you could also add further interest by including some bondo spots or primered/different colored body panels.
Keep up the great work! [tup]
-Dave
p.s. Ooh! More ideas:
busted out headlight
cracked windshield/backglass
missing door (may be a challenge)
missing (or mismatched) hubcap
“FARM USE” painted on sides/tailgate (no license plate)
The rust is great, but there aren’t enough dents. That truck never ran into anything. I await to see what ends up in the bed. You have a lots of suggestions. Spacemouse, I hope you find your truck. Theft is mean, especially in HO.
Started by carefully prying up Duke the dog, the other items in the bed and the front bumber with a #17 Exacto.
Then marked off areas I wanted hard wear with a soft pencil and then went over those areas firmly with some fine grain sandpaper.
The added scoremarks to the bed and sides were there had been scrapes with a scriber.
Washed the model heavily with a blackwash of India ink mixed with alsohol
Painted the whole mess with Polly Scale Reading Green
Painted large areas rust with Model Master rust #4675
Washed again with the blackwash
The went back and highlighted again with the Reading Green to bring out highlights and circle the rust and make the areas more defined.
Painted around the undercarriage and wheel hubs with some earth colored paint (forget the brand).
Then washed it heavily again with the blackwash.
Then to finish I go back with a firm bruhat is very wet with Acryl Cleaner and I wash away blackwao get it where I want it and to make ‘clean areas’ and then repaint any highlights I want to stand out like the radiator grill and headlights.
That’s it… I dont have any boss items yet like weathering powders etc, but I can’t wait to try them.
Hope that aids in anyway… Heaven knows I’m no big dog like some of our great wheatherers here tips hat to them
Well grandpacoyote, if it was a Dodge instead of a Found On Road Dead, and you took off the rear fenders, had the tailgate only in the open possition (unless the chains holding it in place worked), put holes in the front fenders, and removed most of the floor in the cab, it would look just like the old '56 farm pickup I drove to High School my Senior year. Oh yeh, be sure to disconect the muffler and have it drag along the ground and have what is left of the tailpipe clearly showing with several holes in it. The rear lights should only work when the cops aren’t around. (Of course, when you get stopped, you just wiggle some wires and say, “see officer they just needed a little work, they’re fine now.”) That was a great truck! I’d pull into a gas station and say to the attendant, “fill up the oil and check the gas”. Took close to a quart to drive the 3.5 miles from the farm into Canandaigua. I loved that truck! The “hot” babes in my class thought it was the greatest thing to ride down Main St. in it. [:D] Dad “retired” it with only 230,000 miles on it (most in 1st. gear in the fields in the farm).
That thing looks more like a Chevy to me. Last one of those I owned caught fire and nearly burned the house down. At least my Fords died on the road, not in the driveway!!
Gads! Ray, you just discribed my old '63 blue Ford perfectly. Man, she sure looked like a dog:rusted, dented, faded, no tail gate… but I loved that old thing. It even went down the road skewed sideways. I used to have a job in the downtown area and would drive “Betsy” to work. One day I left the keys in it…you guessed it. Someone actually stoled it right in front of my job.
I found it a month later impounded in the police lot, got in it and took off. I noticed it ran terrible and got out and raised the hood. Whom ever stoled it, blew the engine and ran a rod right through the block. I still managed to make it to a service station 2 miles away. Later, I had it pulled to the house and put in a short block and ran it for two more years before selling it. What a gal! [:D]
What it REALLY needs is about 50 half-crushed, empty beer cans in the back along with the wrappers from 15 or 20 moon pies, a bald tire (not on rim), and a dirty car battery (not connected to anything).[:D]
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